Made in 1896

Marie Spartali Stillman
Beatrice
1896
watercolor and gouache on paper
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Louis John Rhead
The Century - June
1896
lithograph
(poster for magazine)
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Joseph J. Gould
Lippincott's - September
1896
lithograph
(poster for magazine)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Will Carqueville
Lippincott's - April
1896
lithograph
(poster for magazine)
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Elisha Brown Bird
The Red Letter
1896
lithograph
(poster for magazine)
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Edward Penfield
Harper's - June
1896
lithograph
(poster for magazine)
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Thomas Theodor Heine
Simplicissimus
1896
lithograph
(poster for magazine)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Fritz Rehm
 Cigaretten Laferme, Dresden
1896
lithograph
(advertising poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Armand Rassenfosse
Huile Russe
1896
lithograph
(advertising poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Otto Fischer
Wilhelm Hoffmann Kunstanstalt, Dresden
1896
lithograph
(poster for dealer in prints and posters)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Otto Greiner
Klassischer Skulpturen Schatz
1896
lithograph
(poster for magazine - proof before lettering)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Heinrich Kühn
Still Life - Carnations
1896
gum bichromate print
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Henri Edmond Cross
Two Women by the Shore
1896
oil on canvas
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Thomas Eakins
The Pianist (Stanley Addicks)
1896
oil on canvas
Indianapolis Museum of Art

John Sloan
Cinder-Path Tales
1896
drawing
(design for book cover)
Agnes Etherington Art Centre,
Kingston, Ontario

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Yvette Guilbert
1896
drawing
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

from Letter to Lord Byron 

Parnassus after all is not a mountain,
     Reserved for A.1. climbers such as you;
It's got a park, it's got a public fountain.
     The most I ask is leave to share a pew
     With Bradford or with Cottam, that will do:
To pasture my few silly sheep with Dyer
And picnic on the lower slopes with Prior.

A publisher's an author's greatest friend,
     A generous uncle, or he ought to be.
(I'm sure we hope it pays him in the end.)
     I love my publishers and they love me,
     At least they paid a very handsome fee
To send me here. I've never heard a grouse
Either from Russell Square or Random House.

But now I've got uncomfortable suspicions
     I'm going to put their patience out of joint.
Though it's in keeping with the best traditions
     For Travel Books to wander from the point
     (There is no other rhyme except anoint),
They well may charge me with – I've no defenses – 
Obtaining money under false pretences.

I know I've not the least chance of survival
     Beside the major travellers of the day.
I am no Lawrence who, on his arrival,
     Sat down and typed out all he had to say;
     I am not even Ernest Hemingway.
I shall not run to a two-bob edition,
So just won't enter for the competition.

– W.H. Auden (1936)